Education:
Michigan State University, Master of Arts
Heads $9 billion (sales) construction firm, Takenaka Corporation. Well-known projects have included Prada store in Tokyo's fashionable Aoyama district and Hyundai Motor's European headquarters in Germany. The firm's roots go back 400 years when an ancestor started building temples and shrines. Prides itself on being Japan's oldest construction firm. Has run the business since 1980. Likes to ski, golf and climb mountains.